In 1994, the blockbuster film Jurassic Park won three Oscars for best visual effects, best audio effects, and best sound. The film, directed by Steven Spielberg, won countless numbers of awards for his movie. Viewers all over the world loved his movie based off of the novel Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. Viewers were wildly impressed by this amazing cinematic masterpiece after seeing it for the first time. Although Spielberg’s movie was an incredible success, it had managed to leave many key points from the novel out the almost had seemed vital to the story line. The novel was longer than the movie however, some of the ideas the Spielberg had left out had almost entirely made the story about a different subject altogether. The biggest of the changes was the characters and their outcomes, as well as Crichton’s philosophy. In Crichton’s novel, there were not only different characters, but there were also different outcomes of the characters. In the film, when all the main characters get to the island there is no character names Ed Regis. Ed was a minor character, but he was the first to be seen killed. Gennaro was the Hammond’s investor’s Lawyer. Gennaro was an important character throughout the novel because he was the character that had represented the idea that one has to take responsibility for your actions; however, in Spielberg’s film, both Ed and Gennaro were combined into one character and killed the same way that Ed Regis was killed. In both the film and the novel the character Allen Grant was a paleontologist. A key issue in the film compared to the novel was that Grant had liked kids in the novel but not in the film. In both the novel and the film it would have made more sense for Grant to like children because then he could better bond with those characters, and be able to form more of a relationship with them in order to care for them and protect their lives from harm. Spielberg must have changed this aspect to better show Grant’s character, and...

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JurassicPark Summary Report
JurassicPark, by Michael Crichton is a thrilling, science fiction novel. It tells the story about the cloning of dinosaurs, which are to be controlled in a theme park, however one man’s greed, drove the park into devastation and destruction.
I consider the plot to be complex. The novel is based upon a theme park featuring dinosaurs, which are created from prehistoric DNA. The novel begins with bizarre attacks from bird like creatures.
John Hammond a wealthy, elderly man establishes this park. However, before the park is to be opened, Hammond invites three scientists to come visit the island to approve of it. They are Alan Grant a Paleontologist, Ellie Sattler a Poleobotanist, and Ian Malcolm a Mathematician. Hammond also invites his two eager grandchildren, Tim and Lex, to come explore the park.
While they are visiting they separate into groups to take a tour of the park. They depart in electric-run land cruisers. While they are examining the surroundings around them Tim and Lex notice raptors leaving on a boat to go to the mainland.
Meanwhile, a rival company is paying a disgruntled employee at the park, Dennis Nedry, a million and half-dollars to steal dinosaur embryos. After Nedry has followed through with the plans the security system is shut down...

...There are many different elements in the movie JurassicPark that make the movie interesting. This film plays with the question What if dinosaurs were alive today? The director, Steven Spielberg, uses sound, lighting, camera angles, comic relief, and even combines some of these different things to make this film a spectacular one. Not only that, but it is a unique kind of action/adventure movie because it is about dinosaurs, which makes it even more interesting.
The sound in the movie was used fantastically. There were a lot of different sounds in this movie, I think more than any of the others that I have seen. At first you do not notice them because the way they are used is very subtle. For example, when the scientists are in the scene where the dinosaur eats the cow, you do not notice the buzzing sound that the electrified fence makes. If you listen closely, you can hear it, though. This is important for later on in the movie when all the power is turned off. You cannot hear the fence later on in the movie when all of the power is turned off. Also, in the scenes when they are being attacked by the T-Rex it is raining. You would not really notice the sound of the rain unless it wasn't there. You would be asking questions about why the sound of the rain wasn't there. When Timmy was up in the tree, I noticed that the sound of the rain changed, but it was still there. It sounded like the rain was just dripping down from branch to branch. I think...

...Based on the readings, web notes, and class discussions, JurassicPark was doomed to fail from the start. Malcolm warned that JurassicPark was a useless expenditure based on the research he had done with his Chaos Theory. He cautioned from the start that the animals would end up acting unpredictably and the island would be a disaster. The five major design flaws of JurassicPark are- they had limited knowledge about the dinosaurs and the environment they needed to live in, they assumed that the dinosaurs would be similar to passive zoo animals, they assumed the dinosaurs would not be able to get out of their cages and/or off of the island, they did not understand that the dinosaurs were intelligent and hunted in packs and had the capacity to kill humans, and Hammond did not want to waste resources on staff so he had the whole island almost entirely controlled by a computer program.
The first error JurassicPark encountered was that they had very limited knowledge about the nature of the dinosaurs and the environment they needed to live in. When Malcolm and the others convene with Hammond to begin the tour, Malcolm notes that JurassicPark takes animals that have not existed for many years and attempts to re-create their environment. Malcolm says that this is very unconventional as it should be that animals are taken that already...

...Chaos in JurassicPark
"Chaos theory proves that unpredictability is built into our daily lives."(Crichton 313). Ian Malcolm's words resolve the book, JurassicPark, in a very absolute way. Throughout the book, Malcolm, spoke about chaos theory and his self proclaimed "Malcolm Effect" to explain his reasoning in his predictions. Ian Malcolm had predicted the demise of JurassicPark even before its opening, as well as its multiple problems and difficulties. Malcolm's theory is evidenced countless times throughout the story of JurassicPark; dinosaurs are breeding, dinosaurs are escaping, and systems fail.
"They're breeding."(Crichton 164). Ian Malcolm had predicted that the dinosaurs of JurassicPark were, in fact, breeding. This was discovered to be true later on in the book, when the numbers of dinosaurs were exceeding the expected count. The use of frog DNA to restore missing portions of dinosaur DNA was the underlying cause. It gave them the ability to reproduce by switching gender. Malcolm had said, "But life finds a way"(Crichton 160), early on in the trip to JurassicPark, and as he had said, life truly did find a way. The very process of making certain that the dinosaurs were all female, thus unable to reproduce, through first, genetically engineering them to be female, and then...

... Who is Hammond and what does he want from Grant?
Hammond is the boss of Jurassicpark and he wants Grant to come and tell everybody it’s safe.
(Pages 51-100)
1. Explain Gennaro’s job.
Gennaro is the attorney sent by the investors to see if Jurassicpark is safe.
2. Describe the CAST system and how it will revolutionize fossil hunting.
The CAST system lets the diggers know where to dig and how deep to dig it also lets them know where the fossil begins and where it ends.
3. Describe the body plan (adaptations) of a velocirapter.
Its bones are as light as a birds, its legs allow it to run at very high speeds.
4. What do the executives of biosyn feel InGen (Hammond’s company) is involved in?
They think there in some weird biotechnology experiment.
5. How can dinosaur DNA be recovered.
They can get it from dinosaur blood.
6. Explain Malcolm’s profession.
Malcolm is a mathematician.
7. Explain the basis behind Malcolm’s prediction for Hammond’s island .
He thinks that Hammond will not be able to control the dinosaurs.
8. Explain the theory of chaos (use the weather as an example).
The theory of chaos states that the human can only predict only a few seconds into the future. People cannot predict the weather 100% correct weather can change almost instantly. So chaos is something you cannot control.
9. Who is Ed Regis?
Ed Regis is head of park...

...Jarassic Park: The Dinosaurs Were Not To Blame For The Destruction of JurassicPark
'Nature won't be stopped .......or blamed for what happens'(Ian Malcolm ,
JurassicPark by Michael Crichton). JurassicPark mystifies its critique even
as it makes it; or rather, to be more precise, it offers us contradictory
messages about whom to blame for what goes wrong. Science finally takes the
blame. Near the end of the book, while the humans are fighting off the
velociraptors, Malcolm (the mathematician) delivers a long and didactic speech
about how science is to blame for messing up the world because it has no
morality; science tells us how to do things, not what things are worth doing and
why. Malcolm talks about how the inventions of science, like JurassicPark, are
fated to exceed our control, just as his chaos theory predicts. According to
Malcolm, chaos theory was developed in response to problems like predicting the
weather, and the theory says it simply can't be predicted beyond the space of a
few days, because the forces involved are too complex and unstable. If
everything in a popular narrative like JurassicPark really means something else,
then so too does chaos theory.
The basic plot of JurassicPark is fairly simple. A Palo Alto
corporation called International Genetics Technologies,...

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Technology in JurassicPark
Technology is one of our most beloved pieces of ongoing history, but does it cause more harm than it does help? In the film JurassicPark, Steven Spielberg portrays the theme technology as an evil force to be reckoned with. Spielberg shows this through the plot, characters, and dialogue. Technology is a major theme because other than the hidden context that viewers have to seek it is everywhere in the film. A viewer thinks of technology as a helping hand, shortcut, or an advance of human nature, but in the film it is portrayed as something that should not be used to try and control nature. Also the complete opposite of what you would normally think, it will not work in your favor.
The plot of JurassicPark shows many ways of people being too reliant on technology. One way it shows this is in the very beginning of the movie they are transporting a dinosaur into the park and the cage had a green light on meaning that it was turned on and ready to transport the dinosaur, despite the green light being on a man was killed when he should have been completely safe (JurassicPark). This sets the tone for the rest of the movie that you should never rely too much on technology because nothing is perfect. Another way the film JurassicPark shows the theme overreliance on technology is when...

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JurassicPark: Absurd Chaos
The main story of JurassicPark written by Michael Crichton is about genetically cloned dinosaurs who break loose. Confusion and complete disorder occurs throughout the story of JurassicPark. In the story, the theme of chaos is unpredictably built in the human’s lives. Dr. Ian Malcolm predicts that having dinosaurs in Isa Nubla will cause disaster. If the animals are released to the island, they will be a liability because they will disrespect nature. Malcolm is the most famous mathematician who predicts chaos countless of times in the park. The breeding of dinosaurs are the main cause that create chaos and destructs JurassicPark.
Malcolm foresees that the creation of dinosaurs is not a smart idea, for it can cause unpredicted behavior. Malcolm is a scientist who is outgoing, egoistic and has the knowledge to create new ideas. Malcolm states that it is '”an attempt to recreate a natural environment from the past” (Crichton 92). Dinosaurs are known to be as an ancient species that only existed long ago. Having the idea creating dinosaurs in JurassicPark is bizarre to humans. Nature is the biggest problem JurassicPark has at becoming successful. Having the idea of using the dinosaurs as the park entertainment on an island is just sounds like a...